Noun
first-rate
- (military, nautical, historical) A ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gun decks
- (military, nautical, historical) Describing a ship of the line in the British navy that had over 100 guns on three gundecks.
- (by extension) Exceptionally good.
- Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German.
- French: de premier choix
- German: erstklassig
- Russian: первокла́ссный
- Spanish: de primera clase, excelente
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